Though Mr Continetti is no Democrat, his faction—the bookish writers who once staffed the now-defunct Weekly Standard—has been largely ostracised from the modern Republican Party.
Centuries ago, English, which seems undogmatic, itself experienced the " inkhorn controversy" , in which some intellectuals freely coined words from Greek and Latin, such as " educate" and " ostracise" .
Being outed as gay (the effective result of the man's home town and workplace becoming public knowledge in the process of contact-tracing) can lead to people being fired from their jobs and ostracised by friends, family and neighbours.
As Philip Graves says: " There is a balance to strike between the extent to which we can feather our own nest, so to speak, and the risk of being ostracised by the group" .
正如 Philip Graves 所说:“可以说, 我们可以自己的巢穴中占上风的程度与被群体的风险之间取得平衡” 。